Were a growing team, and as we scale, so does our need to focus on expanding our engineering team. Youll be joining a people-focused company, and as a Release Manager, you will oversee planning, scheduling, communication, and coordination of our industry-leading SaaS platforms and applications. You will be pivotal in ensuring the timely delivery of software to our customers. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to manage expectations, measure results, and improve processes.

THE OPPORTUNITY :

- Plan and coordinate releases to established timelines across multiple product teams

- Organize and facilitate structured communications throughout the release lifecycle

- Continuously improve release processes based on lessons learned and best practices

- Ensure the definition of done is clearly published and tracked

- Drive communication and treatment of risks

- Identify and drive resolution of dependencies across separate products

- Other duties as assigned.

THE SKILL SET :

- Prefer a Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, business, Management Information Systems or related field

- 2+ years of experience in software release program management, and 5+ years of total experience in software development preferably SaaS.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Ability to build trusted partnerships with executives and product teams

- Strong working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle and software quality attributes

- Experience with Agile methodologies

- Knowledge of Project Management Software Tools such as Jira

- Travel requirement is up to 10%

- Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously

- Desirable certifications include those from PMI, Scaled Agile, Scrum Alliance.

- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Azure DevOps.

- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.

- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their deployment models

The Benefits :

- Professional growth and Development opportunities.

- Working within a team of friendly, skilled people where help is always within reach

- Flexible working hours

- 4 recharge days, where the entire company goes on a brief pause in all geographies for 1 day each quarter. This day can be spent in whatever way helps you recharge, to regain energy, and dive back into the next workday

- High-end laptop (Dell or Mac)

- Competitive pay and bonus

- 18 vacation days in a year in addition to 15 days Sick Leave/ Casual leave per calendar year.

- 16 hours of paid volunteer time off per year

- 26 weeks of paid maternity leave and one week of paid paternity leave.

- Health Insurance of up to 7 lacs for self, spouse, 4 dependent children, and parents. 100% of the premium is paid by Vendavo and it covers the employee, spouse, children, and their parents.

- Group Term Insurance coverage up to three times of their Annual CTC . Dependents are not covered.

- Group Personal Accident coverage up to three times of Annual CTC. Dependents are not covered.

- Provident fund contributions